Slug-guide.



T. W. MOORE.

SLUG GUIDE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB- 8. I916.

1,18%,98U. Patented May 30,1916.

THOMAS W. MOORE, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

SLUG-GUIIDE.

1,184L98tl.

Application filed February 8, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it lmown that T, THOMAS W. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort North, in the county of Tarrant and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SlugGuides, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to linotype attachments and more particularly to guides for taking care of the slugs as they are being discharged from the knife slug plates to the galley; and the object is to provide a simple device for causing the slugs to lie on their feet with the printing edges upward when they reach the galley and to provide an inexpensive device which will not batter or mutilate the printing edges of slugs, and to provide a device which is adjustable for slugs of different lengths.

Other objects and advantages will be fully explained in the following description and the invention will be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is bad to the accompanying drawings which form a part of this application.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the im proved guide, showing the relative position as applied to the linotype machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same on a larger scale than Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference are used to indicate the same parts throughout the several views.

The improvement herein set forth is to take the place of the device now being used for such purpose as above stated. The defect in the device now in use does not prevent satisfactorily the slugs from turning over with the bottom upward instead of the printing edge. The improved guide is hung on the vise cap. A spring steel wire is bent to form an eye 3 and then laterally from the eye 3 and then downwardly to form the arms 1 and 2. Any suitable screw may be used to mount the guide on the vise cap 12 so that the guide will hang with the arms 1 and 2 parallel with the right hand knife slug plate 7 and its cooperating plate 8 of the linotype machine. An antifriction roller 5 is carried by the arms 1 and 2. This Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3th, 191%.

Serial No. 76,927.

roller is preferably made of fiber or rubber or of some material that will not injure the printing edges of the slugs if the slugs fall against the roller. The roller 5 is loosely mounted on the shaft 6 and the shaft 6 is attached by brazing or otherwise to sleeves 4: which are slidable on the arms 1 and 2. The sleeves 1 are adjustable to any part of the arms 1 and 2 and may be supported at any point on the arms by friction of the sleeves against the arms and by the tension of the arms 1 and 2 which are made of spring steel and which may be made so that the lower ends thereof would stand spread farther apart than the upper ends until confined by the sleeves so that when drawn together to receive the sleeves there will be a considerable tension in the spring arms 1 and 2. The plates 7 and 8 form the usual track or chute for the slugs to pass to the galley 10 where they are fed or shoved regularly by the slug lever 9 against the galley slide 11. The function of the roller is to keep the slugs in the track between the plates 7 and 8 and consequently prevent the slugs from turning over as they are passing to the galley 10. The roller 5 turns freely on the shaft 6 and must be of a material which will not injure the slugs.

Various changes in the sizes and proportions and arrangement of the several parts may be made without departing from my invention.

What I claim, is,-

1. In a linotype machine, a protecting member comprising a spring steel wire bent to form a supporting eye and to form parallel arms, and a guide for slugs adjustably mounted on said arms, said eye being hung on a suitable part of the linotype machine.

2. In a linotype machine provided with knife slug plates and a vise cap, a slug protecting member comprising a pair of tension arms substantially parallel to said plates and forward of said plates and a guide roller adjustably mounted on said arms.

3. In a linotype machine, provided with a vise cap and with knife slug plates, a slug guiding member comprising a pair of arms, means for mounting said arms on said vise cap so that said arms will project laterally and forward of said slug plates, and a roller 7 guide adjustably supported on said arms. 4. In a linotype machine provided with a vise cap and with knife slugiplates, a slug 5 guiding member comprising a pair of arms having their upper terminals formed into an eye and said arms being'forward ofsaid guide on said shaft.

In testimony whereof, I-set my hand t zhis "5th day of February, 1916.

THOMAS W. MOORE.

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